Thanks!
So does the bolded confirm that Swahili Bantus extended into Southern Somalia?
Somalis were always there. But they became the majority in 19th century due migration from the northeast of Somalia. All the major clan patriarchs are buried in the north. My own clan, the Marehan migrated to Jubbaland in the last 200-250 years due to the Somali pastoral lifestyle. So, yes but Somalis were there but not in massive numbers til the 19th century in the southeast but southwest was always controlled by Somalis since the 800s BCE due to interior trade:
"A Kismayo news-correspondent formulated a theoretical account (date: 1914) detailing the reason why a section of Marehan migrated to the area of Jubbaland in the late 19th century. The account was published in the British newspaper the Guardian (1914). However, the report contains several in-accuracies not to mention the anti-Sayid sentiment. I am not going to address all the errors but I will address the major fabrication. The author claimed that the Reer Guuri (original colonizers) Marehan joined the Darawiish movement for the sole reason of looting the 'friendly tribes'. This claim (altough not new) has been several times by the British Empire to discredit the national Darawiish movement and obfuscate its real aims. Nevertheless I will list the account for the purpose of historical research" :
The Tribal Disturbances in Jubaland
Origin of the Marehan Trouble
An interesting account of the origin of the trouble with the Marehan tribe in Jubaland, British East Africa, is given by the Kismayu correspondent of the East African Standard. The Marehan were until recently located in the Hinterland of Northern Somaliland. The Mullah induced them to join with him in an attack on the friendlies, promising them a fair share of the arms he hoped to capture. These arms had been supplied to the friendlies by the British authorities in order that they might defend themselves against such antive enemies when the British forces were withdrawn to the coast. The Mullah, however, took good card, as usual, that the Marehan got little of the precious loot, though they had done a good deal of the fighting. Fearing further spoliation if they remained in his vicnicity, the tribe decided to move south across the Hinterland of Italian East Africa and to settle down in Jubaland, in Northern British East Africa. They were obliged to the Juba river near Serenli, 300 miles from the coast, as the district below that point was already occupied by the Ogaden tribe, with whom they were at feud. It was not until they had been established for some time in their new country to to the north of Serenli that the authorities discovered that they possessed arms and ammunition, and were gathering more from Abbyssinia. They were summoned to give up their arms, but refused to do so unless other tribes, including their enemies, the Ogaden, were forced to do likewise. There is a good deal of inter-tribal fighting in this region. The tribes trade cattle for rifles with the Abbysinians, and also there are only two or three British posts over a frontier line of about 600 miles, the smuggling of the weapons presents little difficulty. The Marehan were told that a general disarmament could not be effected as yet. This caused much dissatisfaction among them, and when reinforcements arrived from the garrison at Serenli, they not unnaturally thought they were to be attacked, and determined to be the first to take the offensive.
The correspondent suggests that the immigration of these Somali tribes should be prevented by the establishment of a chain of block-houses along the border and the utilisation as auxiliaries of such tribes as the Ogaden, and further, that measures should be taken at Addis Abeba and along the Abyssinian frontier to prevent the smuggling of arms--Press Association.
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Jubaland and Its Inhabitants on JSTOR
1913: Jubaland and Its Inhabitants – The Marehan, Ogaden, and Harti Somali are all strongly represented in Jubaland.By F. ELLIOTT, A.S.P…
